From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 28 21: 1:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.rdc2.on.home.com (mail2.rdc2.on.home.com [24.9.0.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EC5837B400; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:01:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from cs835768-a ([24.157.6.101]) by mail2.rdc2.on.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20001129050110.BOOD11683.mail2.rdc2.on.home.com@cs835768-a>; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:01:10 -0800 Message-ID: <001701c059c3$4797cf40$65069d18@cs835768-a.mtth1.on.wave.home.com> From: "data" To: Cc: Subject: Fw: Error Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 00:14:41 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey... I have tried everything I know and no one has any idea why I get this error. I decided to forward you this email which I sent to the XFree86 dev team (or whoever xfree86@ goes to). As you can see they didn't know how to fix it. You guys have any idea? Thanks in advance. -data- -----Original Message----- From: Joe Gibson To: data Cc: XFree86@xfree86.org Date: Sunday, November 26, 2000 4:54 PM Subject: Re: Error >> data wrote: >> >> I got XFree86 installed in FreeBSD4.2 >> When I try to run "XFree86 -configure" i get the following output/error: >> XF86EnableIO: failed to open /dev/io for extended I/O >> >> heres the error in the log: >> >> checkDevMem: failed to open /dev/mem (operation not permitted) >> linear framebuffer access unavailable >> >> any idea how to fix this? >> I have checked the faw and posted questions on newsgroups and freebsddiary.org and no one seems to know. Please help! >> thanks, >> data > >Not my expertise, maybe someone else will chip in, but it >says it's a permissions problem, which would suggest that /dev/mem >has incorrect permissions or you are not root when you run >XFree86 -configure" > >YMMV > >-- >* Joseph W. Gibson Lead Software Engineer * >* "Surf the Wave of Chaos" * >* gibsonjw@earthlink.net C/Unix/X * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message